You know it’s cold outside when it’s colder inside!
New England states are feeling the effect of their environmental policies, which resulted in the closing of many coal and oil-powered plants. Many residents of these liberal states were thinking they were fighting back against climate change. Now they are facing the consequences as cold weather sets in and there isn’t enough energy to keep homes heated.
In May 2017, the last coal power plant was closed down in Massachusetts.
The voters in these states put fools in public office who are more concerned about fake global warming than they are about actual people freezing to death. This is what you get when leftist fools are voted into office.
Source: Daily Caller
While New England’s power grid operator predicted it would have enough energy supplies to meet demand this winter, it admitted there could be problems if record-low temperatures set in.
“While New England has adequate capacity resources to meet projected demand, a continuing concern involves the availability of fuel for those power plants to generate electricity when needed,” grid operator ISO New England reported in November.
“During extremely cold weather, natural gas pipeline constraints limit the availability of fuel for natural-gas-fired power plants,” the grid operator noted.
It’s all well and good if you want to shut down coal-fired power plants. But the way the Obama Administration wanted to do it was not in the best interest of consumers. Closing plants before other sources of cheap energy are found would have been the logical way to do it, but Barack Obama had his own agenda.
It’s even worse for New England, in that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also blocked new natural gas pipeline construction in his state, and unless you go through Canada, you can’t get natural gas to New England without running lines through New York. So even if all the New England states decided tomorrow they’d rather have the pipelines than cold homes and higher energy prices, they’re out of luck as long as Prince Andrew maintains his moratorium to please big-money environmentalist donors in New York City.
Doesn’t Sen. Bernie Sanders live in the New England area? I wonder how much of that fuel Bernie is using to heat his three homes? Think he’ll invite any poor freezing people to move in with him?
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